after market cable box?

[Camplate]

This is from my sister. I have DTV so have no idea. Thanks for any help:

You know the digital cable box we have for the downstairs TV, can we buy one somewhere to hook up to a TV upstairs or do we have to rent through Comcast? I looked at Circuit City and the only thing I see there is for use with DirectTV.

To make a long story short (really long story - about 2 hours of my day today). We signed up to get our phone service through Comcast instead of that XXXXXX place, will save about $200 the first year (by cancelling Verizon) and it includes an upgrade for computer speed and we get 3 more premium channels added all for only $8 more than what we pay now a month for just the TV, HBO and computer. However they want $8.90 per month to rent another cable box.

[Meathead]

Nope, your sister has no choice but to rent the box if she wants all of the channels (other than the analog ones). Comcast will not activate a cable box that is not owned by them.

[branchbouncer]

Tivo, but she will still have to rent Cable cards

[philhu]

Tivo, but she will still have to rent Cable cards

Yes, at $2.95/month. And they will not get on demand channels

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[westwolf]

And good luck with getting the cable cards to work with Tivo. I don't think Comcast has any interesting in getting them to. In my case 4 attempts failed.